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BiographyStanislaus Skumbuzo Mzilankatha Sangweni
… 1981, Professor Sangweni was Acting Director of the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa, based in Lusaka, … – 1991, he was Senior Programme Officer…
BiographyTiego Moseneke
Tiego Moseneke, former Deputy Chief Justice Dikgang Moseneke’s younger brother, died on 19 April 2023 following a car accident. He was born on 4 August 1963 in…
Masango Caleb job Mayekiso
Masango Caleb Job Mayekiso was born 1913 in Idutywa Transkei. He was a factory worker in Port Elizabeth.He was a genuine working-class leader.In 1940's…
BiographyMathews Phosa
Nakedi Mathews Phosa was born on 1 September 1952 in Mbombela Township, Nelspruit, Eastern Transvaal (now Mpumalanga Province). He grew up with his grandfather…
The African Resistance Movement (ARM): An Organisational History
… the African Freedom Movement (AFM), and the Socialist League of South Africa (SLA). Radical members of LPSA were … of disaffected members of the Transvaal…
BiographyPregaluxmi (Pregs) Govender
… including the Rural Women’s Movement and the United Nations. Sonke Gender Justice, a NGO committed to the …
BiographyStephen Joel Chifunyise
… the 1980s Chifunyise started consulting for the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation …
BiographyDr Franklin Abraham Sonn
Dr Franklin Abraham Sonn was born in October 1939 in Vosburg in the Karoo, Northern Cape and raised in Queenstown in the Eastern Cape. Dr Sonn graduated from…
BiographyMichael Matlala
Michael (‘Mikia’) Matlala took part in Wold War 1. According to his family, he was banished, from Matlala's Location, Pietersburg District, Northern Transvaal …
BiographyHarold Wolpe
Harold Wolpe was born on 14 January 1926 in Johannesburg to a Lithuanian Jewish family. Wolpe graduated with a BA in Social Studies in 1949 and an LLB in 1952…
Hettie Du Preez
Hettie du Preez has made an outstanding contribution to the struggle against political and economic injustice in South Africa. She was a prominent figure in…
BiographyHorst Gerhard Hermann Kleinschmidt
… In November 1977, Kleinschmidt addressed the United Nations Security Council stating that the apartheid regime …
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1910s
… colour distinctions, founds the International Socialist League (ISL). The foundation of the International Socialist League, by the 'anti-war'…
BiographyWilliam Tilden McClain
William Tilden McClain, son of Mary and Harry McClain and an elder brother to David Jack McClain was born on 14 January 1923 in Shelbyville, Indiana. McClain…
BiographyZolile Malindi
Zolile Malindi was born on 16th of May in 1924 Gqogqora village ,a 14 miles from Tsomo in the former Transkei. His mother, Makhesa, raised him after the death…
ArticleNelson Mandela Timeline 1990-1999
… Apartheid in New York. In his address he urged the United Nations to do everything in its power to maintain the … resigns from the Executive of both the ANC…
ArticleAfrican National Congress Timeline 1950-1959
… Peter Mda as president of African National Congress Youth League (ANCYL) Walter Sisulu ’s book South Africa Behind Bars … Committee (NEC) after differences…
ArticleResponses in South Africa to the outbreak of WWI: Impact on the Indian Working class: the Growth of Indian trade unions
… as chairman, both members of the International Socialist League. In the same year the Indian Printers Union was … June 1916, a mass meeting was organised by…
BiographyPaula Ensor
Paula Margaret Ensor was born in the early 1950s in Durban, Natal (now KwaZulu Natal).In 1971 Ensor completed her undergraduate degree in economics at the…
BiographySamuel Makama Martin Masabalala
Samuel Makama Martin Masabalala was born in 6th December 1877, in Uniondale in the Cape and was educated in Grahamstown and Port Elizabeth. He worked for some…
BiographyMary Butcher Turok
Mary Butcher Turok is the wife of the anti-apartheid activist, parliamentarian and Professor Ben Turok, who played a prominent role in the writing of the…
Freedom In Our Life Time - African Nationalism
… 9TH of April the inaugural meeting of the African Youth League working under the auspices of the African National … were a negative factor in the progress of…
BiographyJosias Ratshilumela Madzunya
Josias Ratshilumela Madzunya was born in the Sibasa area of the northern Transvaal in about 1909, a member of the Venda tribe,the son of a polygamous Venda…
BiographyJosiah Thugwane
Josiah Thugwane was the first Black South African athlete to win an Olympic gold medal. He was born on 22 April 1971 in the small town Bethal, eastern…
ArticleWomen in the schizophrenic 1940s - World War II and its aftermath
… with the formation, within the ANC , of the Congress Youth League (CYL) in 1943.This group of young, more assertive … and in 1943 began to press for the…
BiographyAbdul Samad Minty
… was a member of the Steering Committee of the first United Nations Office to the African Union (UN-OAU) Conference on … as an individual expert on four…
Political deaths in police custody 1984 - 1989
… in cell. 16 August George, Thembalake (15) KWT Youth League King William's Town Mother found victim unresponsive … gathering. 18/19 August Ndzandze,…
ArticleThe World and South Africa when Nelson Mandela was born
… and revolution.In the course of this unrest the Spartacist League led by Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht played a leading role. The Spartacist League was…
ArticleAlbertina Sisulu Timeline 1918 - 2011
… and Anton Lembede, president of the newly formed ANC Youth League, were the main speakers. Lembede warned Albertina that … here husband to the founding…
Balfour Declaration 1926
… associated as members of the British Commonwealth of Nations. now, as regards all vital matters, reached its full … the case of treaties negotiated under the…